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Pea & Bean Seeds

Peas and beans are easy to grow and great for children too. Sowing in succession (every few weeks) means you'll have a continuous crop throughout the summer. Try growing sweet peas next to your runner beans to improve pollination.

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Pea 'Hurst Green Shaft' is double podded, producing particularly heavy yields of up to 11 peas per 10cm (4") pod. This second early, wrinkle seeded variety carries its pods upon the top 30cm (12") of the stems, making them easier to harvest, with fewer backaches! This superb RHS AGM variety has a fabulous flavour and freezes nicely. Pea 'Hurst Green Shaft' also shows good resistance to downy mildew and fusarium wilt. Height: 75cm (30"). Spread: 25cm (10").

A well named and highly productive variety, producing long slightly curved pods with pointed tips that each contain up 12 peas. With such full pods, Pea 'Canoe' is set to become an ideal variety for exhibition. The heavy crops are carried on semi leafless stems for easy picking, and plants become virtually self supporting if grown in a block. Surplus crops of this wrinkle seeded pea freeze particularly well. Height: 75cm (30"). Spread: 25cm (10").

Round off the season with a delicious crop of peas that can be harvested as late as October from an early June sowing. Pea 'Balmoral' produces plenty of pods late in the year, each containing an average of 7 tasty peas. Height: 75cm (30"). Spread: 25cm (10").

A superb quality sugarsnap pea with round, fleshy, pale green, sweet tasting pods. Pea 'Sugar Ann' produces heavy crops from very early in the season. Its cropping period can be extended further with successional sowings. The succulent pods of this RHS AGM variety can be eaten immature while they are stringless but not so sweet. For sweeter, larger pods harvest them later when fully developed with the strings removed. Height: 75cm (30"). Spread: 25cm (10").

Maincrop Pea 'Boogie' produces excellent yields of blunt ended pods, each filled with up to 9 sweet, tender peas. This vigorous variety shows good all round disease resistance, including powdery mildew, making it ideal for later sowings. The semi leafless stems make harvesting easy and plants will become self supporting if grown in a block. Height: 75cm (30"). Spread: 25cm (10").

As its name suggests, Pea 'Jumbo' produces large, straight, pointed pods reaching up to 13cm (5") long. Each generously proportioned pod contains up to 10 plump and tender peas with a delicious sweet flavour. This high yielding, vigorous maincrop has a long picking period and shows good resistance to Fusarium race 1. Height: 75cm (30"). Spread: 25cm (10").

This compact mangetout is a prolific cropper if harvested regularly while the pods are small and tender. The flat pods of Pea 'Sugar Snow Green' are delicious added to stir fries or steamed. This lovely dwarf variety is perfect for growing in smaller plots and containers on the patio. Height: 75cm (30"). Spread: 25cm (10").